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Hamdo and Hamadi are an elderly Syrian refugee couple living in Gaziantep. Having been married for nearly 50 years, the couple met at an early age through a traditional arrangement in a small village in rural Aleppo where they had four children. By the time the war started the family was living in the Aleppo city centre. Once the bombs started dropping they decided to move back to their village in the countryside. Although safe for a short time, a rocket eventually hit their home killing their son Ali and his children. Their deaths pushed them to finally leave Syria and flee to Turkey with their three remaining children where they have been living for the past 3.5 years. Since arriving in Turkey, life has been hard. Their children live in Istanbul and Gaziantep with their own respective families and are struggling to make ends meet: they have no room for Hamdo and Hamadi. As a result, the couple have had to find their own apartment in a neighbourhood where many other Syrian refugees reside. Today they live in a small and modest apartment with some chairs, a cot, an old blanket, and two framed photos of their son Ali and his children. In an effort to pay their rent, they have had to sell off their furniture and stove as well as portions of humanitarian food assistance theyve received from other humanitarian agencies. The monthly rent is 250 Turkish Lira, the equivalent of 80 USD. With no means to continue paying rent, IOM has been providing the couple with rental assistance for the last few months. While largely thankful and relieved to have a roof over their heads, they are aware that the assistance will not last forever and they worry about their future and what means they have to stay warm with the impending winter as they have sold most of their possessions. Hamdo and Hamadi, an elderly Syrian refugee couple living in Gaziantep, look at the framed photo of their son Ali and their grandchildren. They all died when a rocket exploded on their home in a village in Southern Aleppo 3.5 years ago. It was the death of their son that finally drove them to leave Syria with their three surviving children.

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